What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection – they have many friends and few enemies.
Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection – they have many friends and few enemies.
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.
Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.
As the Greek said “Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise.”
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all hope of the Presidency.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.